Present

All About Love: New Visions bell hooks

Started in November 2024

The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life Eugenia Cheng

Started in October 2024

Past

Rejection Tony Tulathimutte

Started in November 2024, finished in November 2024

The Man Who Ate Everything Jeffrey Steingarten

Started in November 2024, finished in November 2024

Orbital Samantha Harvey

Started in November 2024, finished in November 2024

Authority Jeff VanderMeer

Started in October 2024, finished in November 2024

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson

Started in October 2024, finished in October 2024

In Search of Lost Time Volume V: The Captive & The Fugitive Marcel Proust

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright

Started in May 2024, finished in October 2024

The Captive, finished in June 2024

The Fugitive, finished in October 2024

Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers

Started in September 2024, finished in September 2024

Openings Lucy Caldwell

Started in September 2024, finished in September 2024

Enter Ghost Isabella Hammad

Started in August 2024, finished in September 2024

Companion Piece Ali Smith

Started in August 2024, finished in August 2024

Parade Rachel Cusk

Started in July 2024, finished in August 2024

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments David Foster Wallace

Started in July 2024, finished in July 2024

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays David Foster Wallace

Started in July 2024, finished in July 2024

Audiobook

Faces in the Water Janet Frame

Started in June 2024, finished in July 2024

Cairn Kathleen Jamie

Started in June 2024, finished in June 2024

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Marie Kondo

Translated by Cathy Hirano

Started in June 2024, finished in June 2024

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World Naomi Klein

Started in April 2024, finished in May 2024

Alphabetical Diaries Sheila Heti

Started in May 2024, finished in May 2024

Bird by Bird Anne Lamott

Started in April 2024, finished in May 2024

Travels with My Aunt Graham Greene

Started in May 2024, finished in May 2024

Austerlitz W. G. Sebald

Translated by Anthea Bell

Started in April 2024, finished in April 2024

Bluets Maggie Nelson

Started in April 2024, finished in April 2024

Madame Bovary  Gustave Flaubert

Translated by Lydia Davis

Started in March 2024, finished in April 2024

Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Robert M. Sapolsky

Started in February 2024, finished in March 2024

A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother Rachel Cusk

Started in February 2024, finished in March 2024

On Bullshit Harry G. Frankfurt

Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024

Men Without Women Haruki Murakami

Translated by Phillip Gabriel and Ted Goossen

Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine Elizabeth David

Started in October 2023, finished in February 2024

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami

Translated by Philip Gabriel

Started in February 2024, finished in February 2024

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh  Vincent van Gogh

Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans

Edited by Ronald de Leeuw

Started in January 2024, finished in February 2024

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin

Started in December 2023, finished in January 2024

2023

The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories Tove Ditlevsen

Translated by Michael Favala Goldman

Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023

High-Rise J.G. Ballard

Started in December 2023, finished in December 2023

Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu

Translated by Sean Cotter

Started in November 2023, finished in December 2023

The Years Annie Ernaux

Translated by Alison L. Strayer

Started in October 2023, finished in November 2023

Foster Claire Keegan

Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023

The Makioka Sisters Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker

Started in September 2023, finished in October 2023

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Rachek Cusk

Started in October 2023, finished in October 2023

The Magus John Fowles

Started in September 2023, finished in September 2023

Six by Six: Short Stories by New Zealand’s Best Writers Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Maurice Duggan, Janet Frame, Patricia Grace and Owen Marshall

Edited by Bill Manhire

Started in August 2023, finished in September 2023

In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah Marcel Proust

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright

Started in July 2023, finished in August 2023

The Cursed Bus and other writings Jameson Alex West

Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023

Time Shelter Georgi Gospodinov

Translated by Angela Rodel

Started in July 2023, finished in July 2023

Ulysses James Joyce

Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023

The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses Harry Blamires

Started in April 2023, finished in July 2023

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh

Started in June 2023, finished in June 2023

The Story of Art Without Men Katy Hessel

Started in May 2023, finished in June 2023

On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry William H. Gass

Started in May 2023, finished in May 2023

Sorrow and Bliss Meg Mason

Started in April 2023, finished in April 2023

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver

Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023

Life: A User's Manual Georges Perec

Translated by David Bellos

Started in March 2023, finished in April 2023

For a Little While Rick Bass

Started in February 2023, finished in March 2023

The Little Virtues Natalia Ginzburg

Translated by Dick Davis

Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023

6 Full-Cast BBC Radio Productions Anton Chekhov

Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023

Audiobook

Wild Honey

The Seagull

Ivanov

The Cherry Orchard

Three Sisters

Uncle Vanya

Stella Maris Cormac MacCarthy

Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023

Stoner John Williams

Started in February 2023, finished in February 2023

Coventry Rachel Cusk

Started in January 2023, finished in February 2023

The Passenger Cormac MacCarthy

Started in January 2023, finished in January 2023

Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders

Started in December 2022, finished in January 2023

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain George Saunders

Started in November 2022, finished in January 2023

Audiobook
2022

The Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith

Started in December 2022, finished in December 2022

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces George Perec

Translated by John Sturrock

Started in November 2022, finished in December 2022

The Other Name: Septology I-II Jon Fosse

Translated by Damion Searls

Started in December 2022, finished in December 2022

On the Beach Nevil Shute

Started in November 2022, finished in December 2022

Kokoro Natsume Sōseki

Translated by Meredith McKinney

Started in November 2022, finished in November 2022

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens

Started in October 2022, finished in November 2022

The Collector John Fowles

Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson

Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022

The Friend Sigrid Nunez

Started in October 2022, finished in October 2022

Know My Name Chanel Miller

Started in September 2022, finished in October 2022

Summer Ali Smith

Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022

The Tempest William Shakespeare

Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022

Second Place Rachel Cusk

Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022

Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer

Started in September 2022, finished in September 2022

Fictions Jorge Luis Borges

Translated by Andrew Hurley

Started in August 2022, finished in September 2022

Kudos Rachel Cusk

Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022

Camera Lucida Roland Barthes

Translated by Richard Howard

Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022

The Castle of Crossed Destinies Italo Calvino

Translated by William Weaver

Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022

Spring Ali Smith

Started in August 2022, finished in August 2022

A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf

Started in July 2022, finished in August 2022

The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

Started in July 2022, finished in July 2022

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee

Started in July 2022, finished in July 2022

In Search of Lost Time Volume III: The Guermantes Way Marcel Proust

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright

Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022

Essayism Brian Dillon

Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022

Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf

Started in June 2022, finished in July 2022

Chess Story Stefan Zweig

Translated by Joel Rotenberg

Started in June 2022, finished in June 2022

The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European Stefan Zweig

Translated by Anthea Bell

Started in May 2022, finished in June 2022

Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller

Started in May 2022, finished in May 2022

In Memory of Memory Maria Stepanova

Translated by Sasha Dugdale

Started in April 2022, finished in May 2022

Should We Stay Or Should We Go Lionel Shriver

Started in April 2022, finished in May 2022

The Bone People Keri Hulme

Started in March 2022, finished in April 2022

The Mirror and the Light Hilary Mantel

Started in February 2022, finished in April 2022

A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller

Started in March 2022, finished in March 2022

Childhood, Youth, Dependency Tove Ditlevsen

Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman

Started in March 2022, finished in March 2022

Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Thomas Browne

Started in February 2022, finished in March 2022

Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh

Started in February 2022, finished in February 2022

Transit Rachel Cusk

Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022

Six Impossible Things John Gribbin

Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry

Started in January 2022, finished in January 2022

The Rings of Saturn W. G. Sebald

Translated by Michael Hulse

Started in December 2021, finished in January 2022

2021

Elephant Raymond Carver

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

Solutions and Other Problems Allie Brosh

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

Gratitude Oliver Sacks

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

This is Pleasure Mary Gaitskill

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

In Search of Lost Time Volume II: Within a Budding Grove Marcel Proust

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright

Started in November 2021, finished in December 2021

The End of the Affair Graham Greene

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Translated by Ralph Parker

Started in December 2021, finished in December 2021

Look Back in Anger John Osborne

Started in November 2021, finished in November 2021

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe

Started in November 2021, finished in November 2021

The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

Translated by Archibald Colquhoun

Started in October 2021, finished in October 2021

The Razor's Edge W. Somerset Maugham

Started in September 2021, finished in September 2021

Surfacing Kathleen Jamie

Started in August 2021, finished in August 2021

Howards End E. M. Forster

Started in August 2021, finished in August 2021

In Search of Lost Time Volume I: Swann's Way Marcel Proust

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin and D. J. Enright

Started in July 2021, finished in July 2021

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

Translated by Susan Massotty

Edited by Otto M. Frank and Mirjam Pressler

Started in June 2021, finished in June 2021

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy

Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021

Arcadia Tom Stoppard

Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Tom Stoppard

Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021

Winter Ali Smith

Started in May 2021, finished in May 2021

What Is Existentialism? Simone De Beauvoir

Translated by Marybeth Timmermann

Started in May 2021

The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith

Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021

What if We Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen

Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021

Our Mutual Friend Charles Dickens

Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Friedrich Nietzsche

Translated by R. J. Hollingdale

Started in March 2021

Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books Georges Perec

Translated by John Sturrock

Started in April 2021, finished in April 2021

Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov

Started in March 2021, finished in April 2021

Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro

Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021

Inadvertent Karl Ove Knausgård

Translated by Ingvild Burkey

Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021

Flights Olga Tokarczuk

Translated by Jennifer Croft

Started in March 2021, finished in March 2021

The Third Policeman Flann O'Brien

Started in February 2021, finished in March 2021

The New York Trilogy Paul Auster

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai Nina Mingya Powles

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

The Peregrine J. A. Baker

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

Autumn Ali Smith

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

In Praise of Shadows Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Translated by Edward Seidensticker

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream Hunter S. Thompson

Started in February 2021, finished in February 2021

Northern Lights Philip Pullman

Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021

Outlines Rachel Cusk

Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Lori Gottlieb

Started in January 2021, finished in January 2021

Dubliners James Joyce

Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021

Imagining Decolonisation Bianca Elkington, Moana Jackson, Rebecca Kiddle, Ocean Ripeka Mercier, Mike Ross, Jennie Smeaton and Amanda Thomas

Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021

Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

Started in December 2020, finished in January 2021

2020

East of Eden John Steinbeck

Started in November 2020, finished in November 2020

Findings Kathleen Jamie

Started in August 2020, finished in August 2020

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway

Started in June 2020, finished in June 2020

The End: My Struggle: Book 6 Karl Ove Knausgård

Translated by Don Bartlett and Martin Aitken

Started in March 2020, finished in June 2020

The Lonely City Olivia Laing

Started in February 2020, finished in March 2020

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Charles Dickens

Started in January 2020, finished in January 2020

2019

Sightlines Kathleen Jamie

Started in January 2019, finished in January 2019

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